Birthday Bash - Rugby Art Gallery & Museum

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Join us for a fun-filled family celebration as Rugby Art Gallery and Museum turns25!

SCRIBBLE, SKETCH, COLOUR, PRINT, CREATE, EXPLORE
Discover new ways to create on every floor including some artist-led activities.

Join us for a fun-filled family celebration as Rugby Art Gallery and Museum turns 25!

Rugby Art Gallery and Museum is turning a big 25 years old and we’re throwing a Birthday Bash you won't want to miss. Join us on Saturday 21 June for awesome street art and parkour workshops that'll get your adrenaline pumping. Have your face painted and become a party animal. Meet crazy scientists on… stilts! Strike a pose in a fun photobooth. Take home an artist’s portrait of yourself. Plus much more. A real day out for the whole family.

Science on stilts

11am to 3pm

Science on Stilts is a walkabout performance where real life scientists – who are also accomplished stiltwalkers – do simple science experiments with you. They’ll stop on their stilts to have scientific chats with anyone who has high ambitions to learn more about science. Our scientists on stilts elevate how atoms are made or why bubbles reflect colours to a new height – and huge fun.

Street art workshop

11 am to 3pm

Irregular Art will be running a street art workshop where participants will be asked help create large celebration pieces of stencilled art that will go on display in our community space later this year.

Parkour

Pop-Up Parkour with ascension dance brings the excitement of parkour, freerunning, and dynamic movement directly to local community parks and events across the region. Using a variety of purpose-built equipment and obstacles, it offers young people a unique opportunity to explore parkour’s captivating movement vocabulary - through jumps, vaults, rolls, and slides.

Combining structured workshops with supervised open play, Pop-Up Parkour is a free, inclusive activity that invites young people to challenge their physical abilities in a fun, high-energy environment. Whether climbing scaffolding structures or navigating creative vaulting setups, participants are not only building strength, coordination, and agility, but also developing problem-solving skills and confidence.

Pop-Up Parkour turns public spaces into movement playgrounds—sparking curiosity, creativity, and community through motion.

Workshops are bookable

Workshop 1 / 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM
Workshop 2 / 11:45 AM – 12:15 PM
Drop in 1 / 12:15 PM – 12:45 PM
Lunch Break / 12:B45 PM – 1:30 PM
Workshop 3 / 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Workshop 4 / 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Drop in 2 / 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM

The workshops will be bookable and led by Parkour coaches. Each one will have different skills to learn for variety.

Book now.

The drop-in session will be open to all on the day and will need to be supervised by a parent or guardian at all times.

Age: 7 – 17

Esther sketches

11 am to 3pm

Esther will capture the key points, conversations, emotion and feel of the event and turn this into accessible and engaging visuals that will help shape the next 25 years.

Custom photo booth

11 am to 3pm

Capture the day with your own photobooth snap to take home. With our custom 25 year branded images and a range of props, this will be a fun keepsake from the day.

Hello sunshine

11 am to 3pm

Join illustrator Jo who will be doing live illustrations, either single portraits or family portraits. These super fun (and cute) 10 minute live illustrations will capture your own portraits to take home.

Far out faces

11 am to 3pm

It wouldn’t be a party without face painting. Celebrate our animal themed exhibition with having your own party animal themed face paint.

Papercuts

10:30am to 3pm

Floor one exhibitor Mark Curtis Hughes will be launching his new exhibition to display his intricate papercuts and giving visitors a chance to have a go themselves by making their own masks. Drop in between 10.30am - 12noon. Following this, there will be a preview and official opening of his exhibition.

RAGM birthday craft

11am to 3pm

Craft activities including pompom party hats and help us decorate a giant cardboard cake. Free drop-in all day.

Children's parade

10:30am

Join us for our ‘Creative Creatures’ Children’s Parade through Rugby Town Centre as we go wild to celebrate our 25th anniversary. Children and families from local schools and community groups will parade from St Andrew's Church to Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, starting at 10.30am. The parade will feature crafted creatures and costumes, including animals created with local artist Kate Morris.

Do Touch

11am to 3pm

Play with tactile tentacles and soft spikes in Do Touch’s sculptural world of squishy monster-like characters, perfect for children under 6.

Absolute PLAYHEM!

11am to 3pm

Making more ‘Spaces for Play’ for all ages to enjoy, our Play Team will be guiding a variety of loose parts and self-directed activity including giant bubbles, marble runs, multisport and sensory play. Join us as we create Absolute PLAYHEM!